Binghamton, NY is located in Broome County and is the county seat. It has a long and varied history of political representation in local, state, and federal government. At the local level, the city of Binghamton is governed by a mayor-council form of government. The current mayor is Richard C. David and Binghamton City Council consists of eight members who are elected to serve two-year terms. In addition to the mayor and council, Binghamton residents can elect representatives to serve in both the New York State Senate and Assembly as well as US Congress. Issues facing local politics in Binghamton include economic development as well as considerations of education spending, public safety, infrastructure maintenance and improvement, housing policies, environmental regulations and more. Overall, politics in Binghamton strives to ensure that its citizens have their needs met through responsible representation at all levels of government.
The political climate in Binghamton, NY is leaning liberal.
Broome County, NY is leaning liberal. In Broome County, NY 50.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 47.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Broome county flipped Democratic, 50.5% to 47.1%.
Broome county flipped back to Democratic in the most recent Presidential election, after voting Republican in 2016.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Binghamton, NY is leaning liberal.
Broome County, New York is leaning liberal.
Binghamton Metro Area is leaning conservative.
New York is moderately liberal.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Binghamton, New York: d d d d r d
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Binghamton, NY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,073 contributions totaling $322,789 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $105 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 723 contributions totaling $180,653 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $250 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)